There’s nothing inherently green about a month-long sports competition that requires participants and spectators to fly in from all over the planet, as is the case for the FIFA World Cup, which will be held in South Africa this June. Nike is making efforts, though, to push the World Cup in a m...

Economic theory and intuition suggest that as economies become more globalized, the ability of governments to undertake redistributive policies and to engage in social spending erodes. After all, a large part of the tax base--corporations, financial intermediaries, and skilled workers in partic...